If this bill does go through and goverment does have a control over a majority of websites….what if that power gets into the wrong hands? hackers or terrorist then they will have a control over everything that keeps us moving every day cyber war is real!…Please dont allow this to go through for the sake of our country!

PROTECT IP Act
“In some cases, action could be taken to block sites without first allowing the alleged infringer to defend themselves in court.”

V.S.

Bill of rights
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

&

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”

Just one question, how old are you? To the older generation it is not that bad. The newer generation on the other hand it means the end to you tube and other sites that are similar. Times are growing, its about time the younger generation take a stand for what they believe in. Besides we were born on the internet we live on the internet and we shop on the internet. If the younger generation stopped using the internet the economy would fall fast.

It’s because of how its worded sanityscraps. It along with its sister bill SOPA make it to where the US government has the right to say “screw free speech screw creative commons and screw anything that the people lining our pockets don’t like”. As far as I’m concerned piracy isn’t even as bad as these major corporations make it out to be if anything its idiotic that some company is going after a 15 year old for downloading an $80 game trying to get thousands of dollars from him/her when they don’t even see the $80 because all the money they get will go to some lawyer, they lose a person that would SUPPORT someone buying the game, and not to mention these are the same people who have MILLIONS because they’re fleecing over the american public. Even some of the “creators” of the intellectual property oppose this bill because they understand not EVERYONE can afford the movies and music and games.

So you tell me how does this do anything but protect people who are screwing over you and me!

I’ve signed the petition, I’ve called my congressmen, and I can’t say it louder.

DO NOT LEGISLATE THE INTERNET.

I think one of two things are happening. Either the people in charge know exactly how powerful our unbridled freedom of speech on the internet is, and they’re scared; or they’re entirely clueless. Both are terrifying.

We have more power here on the internet than Thomas Pane when he wrote Common Sense, or when the Federalist Papers were written. Yes, is abused, but it was abused before we had this technology too; Propaganda was a malicious use of communication, and piracy is less harmful.

Let the people speak. Let our voices roar in the open forum that is the internet. Once you pass this bill you silence the very sites that can help those voices grow.

If this had been passed before facebook, or myspace, or youtube were huge, they wouldn’t exist today. Worse yet, they’re not immune to this. If this passes, the government could shut them down entirely.

Let us be free.

I agree that protecting intellectual property is good, but this bill allows the government to shut down any site without allowing the ‘offending’ party even a day in court – so no proof is even need for the Government to say shut that site down. It could be used for pretty much anything by the government cart blanch, so it gives them way too much power. Right now it’s easy to get copyrighted material off the internet by just emailing the offending party with a threat of court. I do it all the time for a company I work for – the material comes down immediately usually. Copyright laws already cover this, so there is no need to give the Government such power on top of it. Laws already exist and are typically followed. This is just overkill.

This bill takes reactivist thinking to a whole new level. It provides for total government control of information based on exceedingly vague and often legally thin statutes. All one has to do is look at the patent war between Apple and Samsung to understand why you don’t want to give the government this much arbitrary power.

If this bill had been drafted and passed 15 years ago we would still be listening to CDs and compressed music (like MP3) would be illegal.

Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

Late in the afternoon of Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of Justice website vanished from the Internet. Anyone attempting to visit it to report a crime or submit a complaint received a message saying the site was unable to load. More websites disappeared in rapid succession. The Recording Industry Association of America. The Motion Picture Association of America. Universal Music. Warner Brothers. The FBI…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/anonymous-internet-war_n_1233977.html

The Online-Piracy Mess: How Chris Dodd and Hollywood blew it with SOPA

A cool $1.5 million a year.

That’s what the Motion Picture Association of America is reportedly paying Connecticut’s formerU.S. Sen. Chris Doddto slide an anti-Internet-piracy bill through Congress. His insider knowledge, his old-fashioned liberal credentials, and his winning smile were supposed to make it all so very easy.

Except that Dodd and the MPAA and the hoard of other lobbyists stroking this issue for them now appear to be drowning beneath a tidal wave of Internet opposition. And just maybe Dodd’s sweet salary might have been better spent on someone more in tune with 21st Century technology issues than old-fashioned congressional politics…

New Iran internet blocking

Some days ago the Iranian government has ramped up censorship in three ways: deep packet inspection (dpi) of SSL traffic, selective blocking of IP Address and TCP port combinations, and some keyword filtering.

http://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/blog/index.php?/archives/327-New-Iran-internet-blocking.html&user_language=en

Sound familiar??

One of the worst things that this bill does is enable sabatoge. Any site that supports something an interest group doesn’t like can be taken down by a simple comment. Let’s say hamas doesn’t like all the info an anti-terrorist site has on them. They can easily create an account, go to a comment area, and link to copywrighted content, and BAM, the site is down, and looses money.

What I saw happen with SOPA and PIPA gave me new hope that We The People can fight back against huge money. People online shutdown those bills that had big bipartisan support, and huge corporate and money support.

What started with just a few sites and a few people turned into a movement that became over 7000 sites and countless people that convinced former supporters of the bills to drop their support or pay the consequences…

It became a movement that stopped Congress, and all those paying them millions to pass the bills, dead in their tracks.

I think we will be seeing more of that in the near future.

I doubt that ANY site you mentioned was unable to load. “Anonymous” is just a bunch of unhappy nerds mourning the fact that the utterly unregulated Internet will disappear VERY SOON!

It has existed unregulated due entirely to malfeasance of the FCC. The FCC is failing to regulate ALL wire communications including subscription cable television as required since 1934.

After the Supreme Court allows the FCC to fine Fox and CBS for inappropriate television broadcasts by radio the Supreme Court will back an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals order that the FCC regulate ALL wire communications from subscription television by wire communications to internet wire communications.

The Supreme Court will back the Eighth Circuit Court ruling that the copy[rite] act has been unconstitutional since enacted in 1790 and forbid display of inappropriate art to the unauthenticated or unidentified. The Robots Exclusion Protocol will also be made statutory and required to be used.

So next time I have to say “look Mr Neeley, it is happening right now” ???

Is PC Magazine making it up too?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387095,00.asp

I find it best to just laugh at your apparent ignorance Mr Neeley…

How about the Washington Post?

Anonymous claims credit for crashing FBI, DOJ sites

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/anonymous-claims-credit-for-crashing-fbi-doj-sites/2012/01/20/gIQA7vYODQ_story.html

Your ideas seem to require a hell of a lot of unconstitutional things Mr Neeley!

Read people!

Liberate OpenGovData Now

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2470-Liberate-OpenGovData-Now

You were replied to for the same post over here, I will not bother on this page…

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/comments?comment_page=16&navtab=comments#comments

Oh really? You think? “Internet” censorship will be about unregulated display of my nude art by wire communications against my wishes before my Federal lawsuit against GOOG is over. When 47 U.S.C. §151 is obeyed as written, ALL 47 U.S.C. §153 ¶52 wire communications will be regulated by the FCC as required. My nudes will still be allowed by wire but not to the anonymous anymore. POOF!

The laws that are on the books must be followed as written regardless of past confusion of the Courts and Congress when the obvious is pointed out clearly as has just been done by me in Federal Court filings.

I may have to do or fight a Supreme Court appeal before it is enforced but it is decided like
2 + 2 = 4 POOF

11-2558 Docket mirror

sammybskate wrote: “One of the worst things that this bill does is enable sabatoge. Any site that supports something an interest group doesn’t like can be taken down by a simple comment. Let’s say hamas doesn’t like all the info an anti-terrorist site has on them. They can easily create an account, go to a comment area, and link to copywrighted content, and BAM, the site is down, and looses money.”

That is so unrealistic and such a FRAUD. Taking down the violating material in five days was provided for. Did you NOT read either bill? Maintaining violating links for five days after notified was required.

They both required an unconstitutional United States Copy[rite] purchase first so both were improper.

SOPA is dead. Long live SOPA!

So it looks like SOPA and PIPA have both been shelved, for now. Bloggers and forum-goers around the internet are celebrating victory. While the anti-SOPA movement these past few months has been historic and unprecedented, the time to claim victory has not yet come and likely never will. Bad bills like SOPA/PIPA have a way of coming back from the grave. Often times, they are grafted on to other unrelated bills and pushed through with minimal attention. Even if SOPA and PIPA don’t come back, the scumbags who wrote them are still in office (this REALLY needs to change come November) and they areguaranteed to write similar bills in the future. Big Entertainment lobbyists paid a lot of money to buy politicians, and they aren’t happy that they haven’t gotten what they paid for. In fact, the MPAA is overtly threatening to stop giving money to politicians who went against their wishes.

So yes, we should take a moment to pat ourselves on the back for what we were able to spontaneously do to “stop” SOPA/PIPA. But don’t think that the fight is over. The fight will never be over. SOPA/PIPA have just been stalled temporarily. And even if they never come back, there are already bills that are just as bad, or worse, right around the corner. ACTA has been around since the Bush years. PCIP has been around since May and hardly anyone has known or cared (including myself). We can’t let this momentum die. Luckily we didn’t need to wait very long for the next bad bill to go through to rile us up again. Let’s just hope we weren’t too late like we were with the Indefinite Detention Bill (NDAA).

http://donttreadonmike.com/2012/01/21/sopa-is-dead-long-live-sopa/

@"I doubt anyone much reads here"

So who made that view counter spin up to all those tens of thousands of views per day on these bills?

I must say Mr Neeley that your posts do meet most of the accepted requirements to be considered a troll by many…

I can post the standards if you wish.

Reno v ACLU was written by Honorable John Paul Stephens. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest member of the Court and the third-longest serving justice in the Court’s history.. He was twenty-five when the first nuclear bomb was dropped. I am sure the Internet was a mysterious “unique and wholly new medium” for him. He and four of the other confused old men/women grew up with no internet and agreed with him and felt the internet was mysterious but have now retired also. The court today still grew up with no internet but internet wire communications are not so new now.
http://open.salon.com.blog….letter <<< See why its almost over.
I doubt anyone much reads here and if they do they take the whining with a grain of salt.
I am sure “free porn” is all that is driving resistance to both bills.
The bills are irrelevant after the FCC regulates ALL wire communications.

People in Congress read here…

All you new people are free to post your thoughts here too…

And to all the new viewers here, please be sure to read the latest blog posts over there on the right side of the page.

SOPA/PIPA Dead …For Now.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2464-SOPA-PIPA-Dead-For-Now-

A Comprehensive Look at Those For and Against SOPA

The battle lines have been drawn

http://www.webpronews.com/a-comprehensive-look-at-those-for-and-against-sopa-2011-12

Good job everyone!!!

I wish I could give a medal of honor to all those that helped win this battle!

That goes to show what We The People can do when we come together on a common cause.

The war is far from over though…

Now…if we can just take our country back from big money…